Hi Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather than some central 'enterprise' dashboard etc. Any real world experience? thanks
Quoting Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>:> Hi > > Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack > mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? > We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and > Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather > than some central 'enterprise' dashboard etc. > > Any real world experience?I have CentOS as well as RHEL on many HP servers, although none of them are blades. I do not use Nagios, but I just saw a plugin for nagios that monitors HP's hpasm today .. <http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-hpasm/?cHash=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e> I have not been able to get disk threshold reporting to work in current versions of hpasm but besides that, no complaints. I have RHEL 2.1/3/4 and CentOS 4 running on HP hardware with no issues. HTH, Barry
> > Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack > mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? > We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and > Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather > than some central 'enterprise' dashboard etc. > > Any real world experience? > > thanksTom CentOS on older Compaq and newer HP is the awesome Vvvrrrrrrruuuuuuuu BOOM BOMB!!! Hmmmmm though I think I am a little HP and CentOS biased, even though there are new and old Dell and IBM rackmounts as well as IBM Blade Server units here too. I think I would like to play with one of the Big BlueGene IBM mainframes with linux etc on it though. http://www.top500.org ;-> CentOS just installs and works when other distros I have seen some of our colo clients using URP way too much on install or after. Even with using linux since a lil before version 1, I don't know everything, and in all fairness to other distros, some admins don't know what they are doing when it comes to linux administration. Basic network and hardware monitoring works well here, yet we are not doing what you are doing the same way. - rh